Describes how heat islands are formed, the problems they cause, technologies to mitigate heat island effects, and policies and actions to cool communities.

(HEAT ISLANDS IN CITIES * CITIES)

Directly addresses the physics of urban sustainability and how this sustainability may be modeled and optimized. Considers urban climate, pedestrian comfort, metabolism of urban resources, techniques for modeling and optimization of urban resources, and the means available to urban designers and governors to secure a more sustainable urban future and to successfully measure and model urban sustainability.

(SUSTAINABLE URBAN DESIGN * CITIES AND SUSTAINABILITY)

Data from 2,000 firms and over 500 cities provide evidence for both how leading global cities are coming to dominate the world economy, and how hundreds of other cities are faring in this brave new urban world. Cities are assessed and ranked in terms of their importance for various functions such as for financial services, legal services, and advertising, as well as for the geographical orientations of their connections.

(CITIES IN GLOBALIZATION * GLOBAL CITIES * CITIES)

Companies, cities, and countries must embrace the new rules of commerce centered around aerotropolis, or risk getting left behind. Airports are becoming the center of the metropolis, and magnets for jobs and people. Dallas/Ft. Worth is the proto-aerotropolis, and China and India are building similar sites. Burgeoning sites re in Dubai, and South Korea’s New Sondo City, to be finished in 2015. Cities should be arrayed around airports in concentric circles of business and residential zones.

(AIRPORTS AND CITIES * AEROTROPOLIS * CITIES)

An urban planner’s guide to help communities transform dangerous eyesores into safe and productive homes, workplaces, parks, and gardens. Discusses both the fundamental “big picture” issues and related technical and practical questions. Suggests creative ways of thinking about local policies and strategies as not only dealing with the properties themselves, but to build stronger and healthier neighborhoods, town, and cities.

(CITIES * ABANDONED PROPERTIES)

Explains and explores what works and what doesn’t in select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments that deal with key social and economic problems facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas. Covers policies coping with foreclosures, options and outcomes of school choice, commuter taxes in US metropolitan areas, sport as a stimulus for urban economic development, and public transit as a metropolitan growth and development strategy.

(CITIES)

In the absence of federal leadership, states and localities are stepping forward to address climate change, urban sprawl, and polluted water and air, following innovative models outside US borders. Experts from Paris, Freiburg, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Heidelberg, Venice, Vitoria-Gasteiz, and London illustrate groundbreaking practices in urban planning, such as creating greenways, improving public transit, conserving energy, instituting “green audits” for government, and strengthening city centers.

(ENVIRONMENT * GREEN CITIES OF EUROPE * CITIES)

Environmental concerns demand that ecological and sustainability issues are addressed in urban design. Outlines a tested interdisciplinary “process model” for urban design, describes useful steps to approach transformation of urban spaces, and illustrates the different stages in which the process is organized, using theories, techniques, images, and case studies.

(CITIES * ENVIRONMENT * URBAN DESIGN * REGENERATIVE PLACES)

Certain eras used rules to produce beautiful, walkable communities, while others created just the opposite. Rules like zoning and subdivision regulation are primary determinants of urban form. Explores the use of regulations to revigorate, rather than stifle, communities.

(CITIES * REGULATIONS AND CITIES * URBAN FORM AND REGULATIONS)

Brings together the power of the conservation and sustainable design movements. Calls for looking at nature for the missing components of the green revolution: oysters that can clean water at up to 5 liters an hour, beavers that reshape their environments while simultaneously enriching ecosystems; and mountains that offer a new way of imagining how a city could be built. By designing our homes and cities in harmony with the natural world, we can take the next step in the sustainability revolution.

(CITIES * SUSTAINABILITY * ARCHITECTURE * GREEN URBAN ARCHITECTURE)